By  Olasunkanmi Akoni LAGOS – The Action Congress (AC) has warned the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr.  Michael Aondoakaa, not to plunge the country into an unnecessary crisis by misleading President Umaru Yar’Adua and nudging him to a needless face-off with Lagos State, over the creation of the 37 local council […]

By James Ezema LAGOS – An independent survey by a Lagos-based research and marketing firm, RMS Limited, has shown that a majority of Nigerians believe that the Niger Delta people are marginalised even as loss of revenue from reduced crude oil output, scaring of potential investors and lack of infrastructural development were mentioned as the […]

By Daniel Idonor ABUJA – PRESIDENT Umaru Yar’Adua yesterday inaugurated the new board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), declaring that with a new board now in place, all is now set for a full-scale infrastructural development of the once-abandoned region. The President stated that right from inception his administration had consistently identified as […]

By Henry Umoru ABUJA – THE Thirty-Six State governors under the aegis, Governors’ Forum will tomorow begin an awareness campaign against wild Polio virus in their various states as part of moves to eradicate it. According to the Forum, each state governor would on that day implement its awareness campaign programmes in consonance with the […]

By Daniel Idonor ABUJA – The Federal Government’s plan to set up a dedicated Youth Development Fund to finance the implementation of the programmes contained in the National Youth Policy has received the endorsement of the Federal Executive Council (FEC), Minister of Youth Development, Akinlabi Olasukanmi, has said. Speaking on the details of the new […]

By Liade Akinboade ABUJA – Nigerians have opposed immunity clause for public office holders in Section 308 of  1999 constitution. This was the result of an opinion poll conducted by the Ministry of Information and Communications. It would be recalled that there had been lot of controversies on Section 308 of the Nigerian constitution, where […]

By Ise-Oluwa Ige ABUJA – The Executive Vice- Chairman of the Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC), Mr. Ernest Ndukwe, has said that the Nigerian telecommunication connection base has hit 67 million. Of this figure, no fewer than 66 million Nigerians or 99 per cent owned a telephone for the first time between 2001 and now. He […]

By Tony Edike ENUGU- THE Pharmacists Council of Nigeria (PCN) has canvassed support for local drug manufacturers, saying it has confidence in the efficacy of drugs manufactured locally more than those imported into the country. Asking the Federal Government to give Nigerian pharmacists necessary encouragement and enabling environment to produce quality drugs for local consumption […]

By Isiaka Oyibo LOKOJA -  A 7- man gang of heavily armed gunmen suspected to be kidnappers, yesterday, stormed the Optimum Pleasure Hotels in Bunu area of  Kabba  Local Government  of Kogi State killing three policemen and abducting two council chairmen with the kidnappers asking for N10 million ransom for each of them. The abducted […]

ASABA—The Delta State government has harped on the needs for youths in the country to take to agriculture, as the state and the Federal Government move to diversify the economy.